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Friday, August 22, 2014

Yowzers! How did all this time go by without me checking in?
Today was my easy week, too! I have no excuse! Anyhow I’m still sitting at
181.2 so that’s disappointing…

Anyhow, I’m tired still. I tried walking a mile last night
and taking a bath with lavender scented Epsom salts…but still woke up at 3am
and tossed and turned the rest of the night.

Foodwise, we did really good. The 10-day detox was done
yesterday. We enjoyed spaghetti for dinner. I think we’ll still be watching how
much dairy and gluten we put in our bodies to help keep us on track.

I don’t remember what exactly I had for breakfast (smoothies
every day) or lunch (usually leftovers) but I did manage to write down what
dinner was each night:

Monday: turkey burgers, broccoli/cauliflower mix

Tuesday: Baked chicken with either green beans (Kenny) or
brown rice with broccoli/carrots

Tonight the big football game between county rivals (one
school I work for and the other school my kids attend). I have about 30 minutes
after I get home to walk the dogs, change, throw down some food and then get
back in the car to head to the kids’ school to help load equipment before buses
leave. I’ll get a lot of exercise from loading and unloading instruments so I’m
not going to do any formal exercises.

This week, the Daniel Plan Essential we are focusing on in:
Fitness. So we’ve studied: Faith, Food, and now, Fitness. This is one this that
tends to mess me up. I can handle the food pretty well. The fitness part gets
me every time. I did come home from the study and after the sunset (it’s 95 and
MUGGY here in Georgia right now) Meg and I walked to the front of the
subdivision, which is one mile. I’ve tried to either stand at my desk or walk
around more during the day, since I’m so sedentary at work.

I’m actually trying to set up a time for me and two friends
to meet at the gym and work out tomorrow and maybe in the future. And I’ve made
plans to do Zumba on Tuesday with friends (at a gym) and Thursday with DVDs
after the Bible study.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

This year I took a new position within the school system. I’m
now the secretary for the principal at the rival school of the school my kids’
attend. And, woo-wee, there’s some serious school pride going on over here. Not
so much with the kids, mind you, but with the staff and the parents. I have
been asked several times why I didn’t bring my kids with me…and by people who
know that one of the girls is not only a senior, but one of the drum majors! Yeah, sure, I'm gonna make her miss out on all that!! Don’t get me wrong, this is a perfectly nice school. I’m
proud to work here. I love the staff. But just like any high school, it’s not
perfect. My kids know their school. When Jo graduates, we’ll have had a Stokes
child enrolled for a solid decade. That’s a lot of history right there.

Anyhow, the first football game of the season is this Friday
and everyone here is on super Patriot Pride alert. I mean, it didn’t take me
long to know how they felt about my kids’ school. But this week? Wowsers! It’s
almost to the level of “methinks they doth protest too much.” Maybe that has to
do with the fact that Rockdale beat Heritage at last year’s football game?
<giggle> But, my goodness, really? It’s a football game.

Yes, yes, I know, I live in the South where Football is
King. But, still, seriously, folks!! Get it together. It’s kind of sad that
they have to have 20+ police on site…because of the alumni, parents, and adult
fans!! Really? REALLY???<sigh>

Anyhow, as things heighten to a fever pitch around here, I’ve
decided to do the only thing I can do…wear Rockdale colors all week. I even
have a Bulldog necklace to wear, thanks to Meg’s boyfriend’s mother!I meant to take a picture every day and post
it…but it was ridiculously muggy yesterday afternoon after work and after going
to the Park to hang out with my bestie, Kim, and my sweet girl, Gloria, and
then pumping gas…I was a slimy, sweaty mess and all I wanted to do was to get
out of that dress (well, really, the Spanx, girl’s gotta be honest, here).

I will be so glad when this week is over, though. Of course,
basketball season is right around the corner and I hear the Rockdale/Heritage
basketball game is something to behold as well.

Monday, August 18, 2014

These weekends are gonna kill me. I don’t know why it’s
harder to stay on track at home than it is when I’m at work. I have a
refrigerator full of good things to eat…but I didn’t feel like dealing with it.
Maybe that’s it. On work days I make a smoothie and take it with me to drink on
the ride. I also make lunch and that’s my only choice. At home I have all sorts
of options but in order to eat them, I have to do something. Guess that makes
me a lazy thingamajig.

Saturday I dropped to 181.8, which meant 3 lbs gone, so that
started my day off well. I had so much to do to get ready for this weekend. I
had the VBS follow-up movie and the Band Potluck on Saturday afternoon and
evening and SKC/nursery meeting on Sunday to prep for. And what did I do Saturday
morning? I lolled around in bed! Which made the rest of the weekend go pretty irritatingly.
Nothing fell apart because previous planning held, which meant that I didn’t
look all whackado. But still. It annoys me that I didn’t work on the things
that I’d planned to work on.

The VBS follow-up movie was disappointing. Only three kids
showed up and since we watched it in the fellowship hall, since I thought there
would be more participating, the movie was too dark for that big room and the
sound quality was really yucky. But I appreciated the parents of the kids that
showed up for taking time on their Saturday to bring their kids and I had a
couple volunteers who showed up and that meant a lot to me.

The Band Potluck was pretty good, I guess. I volunteered to
help with the merchandise and ended up not eating…but that’s okay. I’m not sure
what I could have ate. My favorite part of the night is when the kids take the
field. This year they did something different. They encouraged the parents to
come down to the field and take their kids’ places. We learned the responses to
some of the different commands. Kenny took Jo’s place and she showed him how to
stand and do flute stuff. I stood with Meg by her podium and learned a couple
directing motions. (Wow! That is HARD!!!) The guard parents were my favorite
because they some of them had to contort their bodies in to ways I don’t think
they’d planned to EVER get into! But I think it gave the parents a new
appreciation of a little of what their kids go through AND it gave a lot of
amusement to the kids, the instructors and to the parents who didn’t choose
participate.

Sunday I got to be in a Sunday school class. My soul is so
happy. Jo joined me. We are doing Beth Moore’s study on 1 & 2
Thessalonians. SKC was pretty fun. 9 kids came. We looked into the battle of
Jericho and what lessons we could learn from it. The nursery meeting was a bit
of a bust because Brad had to skip in order to look in on his parents and Joyce
had plans to eat out for lunch. Since we were just going to go over a sample
nursery handbook and talk about changes and additions for our church, I just gave
Joyce a copy and Kim a copy to give to Brad and we’ll chat about it some other
time.

We went out to eat but it was a buffet, which when I’m
eating regularly I don’t eat enough to make it worthwhile, but on the Daniel
Plan was kind of silly. We paid $11 for me to have some salad, a hard-boiled
egg, and apple and baked chicken.

I don’t think I ate dinner Sunday night. I took a Sunday nap
and just couldn’t get it together!

I’m still really, really tired. I’m just not getting sound
sleep. I guess I need to work on scrubbing my bathtub so I can take a soak at
the end of the day and see if that helps.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Headaches abound! I feel like I am one big headache and
stuffy headed person. I’m taking my Zyrtec and nosespray as usual so I’m
assuming that this is either the toxins coming out or that I’ve caught a cold.
Kenny feels crummy, too, which also could just be the toxins or that we’ve
caught the same cold since we spent all weekend together in the car. I’m still
a day behind on blogging so this is about yesterday/day 3. Maybe I’ll catch up
at some point and blog at night about my day…and maybe I won’t. Depends on how
saucy I get to feeling.

Yesterday was one of those Cinderella days for me. I was
feeling low because I’m still not an integral part of the team at work and
although I have a nice little office with my name over the door, I still feel
like I’m unnecessary. Since the girls had band practice until 6, I had to deal
with the dogs. I felt mega-guilty about leaving them in the pen while I swept
and mopped because they’d been crated up all day with no human companionship
(coming off of a whole 3 months with someone there almost all day/every day).
But the floors needed some attention and I HAVE to get this house on a routine…for
my own sanity. I did my & Kenny’s laundry and changed my sheets on Monday
(and some dish towels), Jo’s laundry on Tuesday, and yesterday finished up the
delicates while I swept and mopped the family room, kitchen/dining/entry way,
and my bedroom. I need to scrub down my bathroom today (yuck). Besides just
needing to do it for sanitary reasons, I want to start taking Epsom salt baths
at night to calm and draw out more toxins. Plus I’m having a hard time getting
my quiet time in. I’m the children’s leader, leading a Bible study and a mom…I
gotta have my Bible time!!!

Last night I also went by Kroger’s because everyone at
Daniel Plan raved about their organic/gluten-free section. I was actually a bit
confused. I do appreciate that they have everything grouped together but I
still could not find cheap tahini!! I broke down and bought some though. I’m
such a schmuck. J

After I got the house stuff done that I needed to get done,
I realized that I didn’t have time to work on Sandra’s flyer anymore. Luckily
she won’t need it until next Tuesday. I needed to get dinner ready. One of my
favorite recipes from the Daniel Plan book is Dr. Hymans Walnut/BasilPesto
Chicken. Unfortunately, I got popped by some grapeseed oil and burnt the snot
out of two of my toes and in between them. Hurt like anything! Dingaling didn’t
think about the fact that I had aloe with lidocaine in my cabinet. I just put
cold water on it and griped about it until I got home and Kenny was saying I
needed to put something on it.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Day 2 was hard, I’m not gonna lie. I woke up with a headache
and not feeling like I slept enough. But I had a plan for the day: Work,
dishes/laundry, salsa chicken, work on Sandra’s flyer and print out Band
minutes, band meeting, home.

So the day pretty much went like that except I didn’t feel
like unloading the dishes, so that didn’t get done. And the printer decided it
was going to be offline no matter what I did, so I had to leave earlier than I’d
planned to go by the church to print out the Band minutes, which meant I had to
finish Sandra’s flyer later. I also didn’t get to eat dinner since I ran out of
time. The Band meeting was kind of irritating because all the stuff we went
over, I’d already heard in the planning meeting and the budget meeting. So when
we started over for the people who didn’t realize that the meeting started at
6:30 instead of 7, well, I was on edge.

I got home and took the dogs on a walk out to the front of
the subdivision (1 mile…go me), I really need to remember to put their
harnesses on since they have no idea how to walk well on a leash and I don’t
have the time to teach them.

I did sit down and finish Sandra’s flyer and looked over my
lesson for tonight before I went to sleep.

I didn’t eat dinner because by the time I got settled after
the meeting, it was almost 9. I wasn’t hungry and I didn’t want to eat that
late…so I didn’t.

Oh, and I looked it up and Ezekial bread does have wheat and
gluten, now it’s organic gluten and sprouted wheat so if you’re gonna screw up
with your gluten, that’s the way to go. But I still beat myself up a little for
not eating right the VERY FIRST DAY!!! And the second time I did this!!! Ack!

Today’s meals: Strawberry/banana smoothie with almond milk
and chia seeds for breakfast, organic raw cashews and spinach/kale chips
(checked…gluten free) for snack at work, quinoa salad for lunch, hummus and
carrots for snack at home, and 96 oz of water. I made “Salsa chicken” (chicken
breasts baked with homemade taco season and salsa) for dinner but didn’t eat
it.

Starting
weight: 184.8

Day 2
weight: 184.4

Disappointing,
but with the thyroid issue and just having ate right and walked one mile for
one day, guess I might be expecting too much? I have to say that emails to my
hubby, friends and Daniel Plan peeps have turned my frown upside down!

Monday, August 11, 2014

Yep, I'm a glutton for punishment. Today is day 1 of the plan for me and Kenny. The first Bible study session was last Thursday. However, since we left Friday after work to make the drive to D.C. we figured the better choice would be to start today (Monday). I took the day off so it wasn't too horrible. Tomorrow I'll have to deal with work, too. Ugh. I think I may have boo-booed, though, because I didn't even think about it and had some Ezekial bread. I think it's okay on the 30 days but not the 10 day detox. I'll have to check that out. :(

Days 1-10 are the detox: no dairy, no gluten, no sugar, no processed foods, no caffeine

Exercise: I shopped and did a lot of laundry and housework (I even weeded a bit!!) during the day. Jo and I took the dogs on a 1-mile walk!!

Gonna do a banana & strawberry smoothie tomorrow, a quinoa salad for lunch, probably some more hummus and carrots for a snack. Dinner....if I get up in time, I think I'll put some beef stew in the crockpot. I have a band booster meeting tomorrow night so I gotta do something easy or fast.